With the pardon of the sheriff, with the order to the military Re: transgenderpeople in the service, I’d have slapped up a shot of Der Fuhrer faster than lightning. But JCD is right, I’ve been over-using Hitler as an easy allusion for Drumph and Fascism.

So here is a new simulacrum that I’ll use. It’s a little lighter with a touch of humor. Although the situations grow less and less humorous.

Thanks JCD!

* see JCD comment, 3rd comment under ‘Very Nice People’ post **

** Granted, this is a meta reference to Williams. However, one that may be familiar to constant readers.

Addenda items …

At David’s good suggestion to search harder for a Williams College reference, I am adding this more direct beat-back.

This article in the blog of Christian Thorne, Associate Professor of English on 27 February, 2017:

Mussolini’s government, unlike Hitler’s, did not attempt to monopolize the entire sphere of thought and culture. Historians are keen to point out that there was no Italian Gleichschaltung—no effort to bring everyone into line. Within certain parameters, independent intellectuals continued to publish in Italy, which means not that there were still socialists or communists or liberals expressing themselves freely in Florence and Rome—those people really were shut down—but that there remained an outer circle of freelance fascists, the half-fascists or the merely unenrolled, the shirts not of black, but of charcoal and onyx and taupe,

I have no way of referencing the past posts other than my own fading memory. And I really don’t have an understanding of or entrance to Twitter or Facebook.

My direct references are either on-line or hard copy: NYT, WaPO, Politico, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Metropolis, and Dwell. Other than that when looking for something of reference to Williams, however thin, I google my topic in various forms and “Williams College” then hope for the best.

From a content point of view, to find a direct topic first with a Williams lead that has already been reported, does seem to put one behind a news curve. I do look for these and post when I find one. Given my sources, they are usually in the arts.

I’m not sure your criterion makes sense. If he can find another who expressing an opinion, it is postable. If he, an eph, wants to post an opinion, it is not connected enough. Either way it is an Eph commenting on current political affairs, with Dick Swart or Mika B. That’s the connection to Williams – it is an eph’s thoughts on the current political environment.